asked on

Is there a way to restart my Windows 7 PC everynight.

Sometimes my PC will not see the camera, microphone and printer. When I re-boot the PC I see all again. I would like to refresh everything every night and have it ready for my wife to clutter up the next day.

Thanks in advance.

alirazakhan

apoint a person who do it

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

Ernie Beek

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

Ernie Beek

Oh by the way, in control panel it's under 'administrative tools'.

@alirazakhan: is that supposed to be a serious answer?

enachemc

shutdown -r -f -t 1

-f means force restart

LeeTutor

This tutorial takes you through the steps of how to use Windows 7's Task Scheduler to create a basic task:

http://www.7tutorials.com/how-create-task-basic-task-wizard

The action you want to take, as the last step of creating the basic task, would be:

c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe /r /t 00

This calls a system program to restart the computer immediately (at whatever time you specified for task scheduler to run this task). The "/r" argument does a restart rather than a shutdown (you would specify "/s" if you wanted to shutdown the computer instead), and the /t 00 specifies the number of seconds (zero) to wait before running the task.

AlamoAutomation

ASKER

Thanks I found this as well sorry to bother with such a dumb question

phimanshuj

I created a batch file in notepad containing the following string
c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe /R /T 5 /F

saved as "autoshutdown.bat"

Then scheduled a task to run nightly at 1am.

Ernie Beek

Thx for the points.
And you know: there are no dumb questions, only dumb answers :)